INCLUSION AS A NEW APPROACH OR A SOCIAL ATTEMPT IN THE APPROACH TO SOCIAL INCLUSION OF DISABLED PERSONS
INCLUSION AS A NEW APPROACH OR A SOCIAL ATTEMPT IN THE APPROACH TO SOCIAL INCLUSION OF DISABLED PERSONS

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the research presented in the paper was to establish similarities and differences in the approach to disabled persons, as well as the key elements resulting in medical care model for the stated population, according to the analysis of the National strategies and legislative regulations regarding the persons with invalidity in the countries involved in the research. Theoretical and historical causes still underlying traditional approach models to persons with invalidity are analysed in the paper. The approaches are grounded not only on invalidity as an absolute category, but also on the attempts at a different approach to disabled persons resulting in the development of various paradigms and accordingly derived models. The systems of care for the persons with invalidity in the Republic of Germany, the Czech Republic and the Republic of Slovenia, as EU members, as well as in the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Republic of Serbia, as transitional countries, were evaluated according to the qualitative functional data analysis. Comparative analysis was used to compare the forms of care existing in Croatia with the conditions in the stated countries. The analysis has shown that the traditional approach to persons with invalidity based on medical model is still prevailing, in spite of the fact that all the countries had made national documents clearly expressing the need for different reflections on the approach to persons with invalidity.

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